Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Land-Vest, Ic. paid the University $620,000 in March 1973, for the tract of shorefront property in Chilmark. The company has already received $1.6 million from the sale of 33 of 49 house lots and it could gross as much as $2.4 million if prices hold...
...Valley Authority was so low on coal that it asked the communities it serves in seven states to cut their street lighting in half for the duration of the strike. In all, a three-week coal stoppage would cause a loss of more than $5 billion in the sagging gross national product...
...government faced a Hobson's choice: austerity or economic collapse. The October war cost the country $7 billion, roughly equal to its gross national product in 1973-the U.S. equivalent would be $1.3 trillion. Moreover, nearly half of the $8.44 billion budget still goes for defense costs. The inflation rate for 1974 is about 35%. At the same time, economic aid from Washington ($1,250 million in 1974) is $500 million less than anticipated, and help from U.S. Jews has dropped off by a projected $225 million this year. Israel must now depend on its own resources more than...
...Lasker Foundation also handed out $5,000 awards for basic research to four of the country's leading cancer investigators. Dr. Ludwik Gross of The Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital was cited for his discovery of animal leukemia viruses. Dr. Sol Spiegelman of Columbia University was honored for the first successful synthesis of an infectious virus-like particle. Dr. Howard Temin of the University of Wisconsin was recognized for his studies of how viruses reproduce. Dr. Howard Skipper of Birmingham's Southern Research Institute was cited for his work in biochemistry and cell biology. Medicine is still far from...
...CURIOUS that Harvard's neo-classical Economics Department is guilty of such gross monopoly practices, but that only serves to underline the severity of the problem. Every member of this community should follow the Graduate Economics Club's lead and demand changes in the University to make courses more relevant to students, to increase contact with senior faculty, and to force recognition of students as equals with the right to affect the decisions that determine their academic lives...